Active Voice Review

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1 Does this sentence use the active voice, passive voice, or a linking verb?
"The car was brought in for service after breaking down on the road."
Active Voice
Passive Voice
Linking Verb

2 Does this sentence use the active voice, passive voice, or a linking verb?
"The best information was found on the Web page of Fund for the Protection of Ferrets."
Active Voice
Passive Voice
Linking Verb

3 Does the following sentence use the active voice, the passive voice, or an instransitive verb? "Many citizens of Southern California deeply resent the pollution of their beaches."
Active Voice
Passive Voice
Instrasitive Verb

4 Does the following sentence use the active voice, the passive voice, a linking verb, or an intransitive verb? "According to its author, Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence was 'the holy bond of our nation.'"
Active Voice
Passive Voice
Linking Verb
Intransitive Verb

5 The following sentence has two verbs. What combination of the active voice, passive voice, and linking verbs does it use? "The hammer fell hard onto the pane of glass, which was broken into a thousand pieces."
Active Voice-Active Voice
Active Voice-Passive Voice
Passive Voice-Linking Verb
Passive Voice-Passive Voice


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